Monday, February 29, 2016

YouGov Survey Finds Americans Under Thirty Favor Socialism

A survey conducted late last month by YouGov found that a
shocking 43 percent of Americans under 30 have a favorable view of socialism,
while only about 32 percent had a favorable view of capitalism. Conversely, of
those over 65, 63% had a favorable view of capitalism while only 23% had a
favorable view of socialism.

The
survey results clearly reveal a number of facts: 1) Rapid demographic changes are having an effect on the political
views of the American populace, much to the delight of the establishment of both parties. The vast majority of
illegal immigrants, for various reasons, are young. 2) Schools at all levels
are failing to teach history or failing to teach it accurately and honestly.
Anyone who knows the history of socialist/Marxist/communist countries knows it
is an unbroken streak of human misery, dictatorship, plunging standards of living
and outright evil at worst- and drastically limited human freedoms and an
attendant breakdown in innovation, religion, morale, respect for life and individual self-esteem
at best.

Nazi
Germany, the Soviet Union, Cuba, the Cold War. The under 30 crowd didn’t live
in this era, of course, so they don’t have first-hand knowledge of it. And now they aren’t being taught history, except perhaps through
a revisionist, Marxist prism. Leftists control all of America’s major
institutions, so that even outside of academia, all they are exposed to in the
mainstream media, Hollywood, music, social media, etc., is a constant barrage
of mindless, craven, intolerant, politically-correct…twaddle.

3) As we
have reached an unprecedented level of wealth and comfort, with previously
unheard of amounts of leisure time, we have gone soft. In an apparent attempt
to be caring and humane, we have built a welfare state that allows those who
don’t wish to work the ability to stay home and collect an unearned paycheck,
taken from the ever fewer number of folks with the integrity and character to
keep working. Smoking weed and playing video games is cool. And it still leaves
one with plenty of time to denounce the rich and lobby for free college
tuition, free birth control and free…everything else, too.

Not
having experienced what previous generations had to go through to survive, such
as hunting woolly mammoths and living in caves; living in a small home with no
electricity, heat, television, phones or internet; or fighting off a lengthy global depression, and fighting in two
World Wars, etc., etc.,…has left the millennial generation, as a whole, utterly spoiled,
entitled, infantilized and effeminate.

These
factors combine to explain why the majority of millennials are pro-socialism
and are consequently voting for Bernie Sanders in overwhelming numbers. It
still boggles the mind, though, how ignorant and blinded by groundless
emotion people can be. It is stunning that many disdain the very folks who produce the wealth that they seek to transfer to themselves.

Daily Trivia Quiz Answer

Today's Answer: Andrew Jackson. ("Poll" got so worked up before the service he apparently had to be removed from the premises, as he was cussing long and loud).

Q) What words appear on the front of the penny, nickel, dime and quarter, alongside the likeness of presidents?

A) "Liberty" and "In God We Trust"

An Ode To Life

Appreciate all you have, as it- and you- will soon be gone. Leave no heartfelt words unspoken, no sweet gesture incomplete, no act of love undone. Love your spouse with passion and abandon, your kids with patience and understanding but also a firm guidance. Love also the truth, no matter how hard. If pursued by enough people with enough courage, it really will set us free.

And don't forget, we didn't ask to be born. We didn't create ourselves. We are not gods. There is a higher power.

Fireworks of the Mind

Write It Up

Whence Shall Come Another?

True Then, True Now

"If you will not fight for right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory is sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves."- Winston Churchill

Time Well Wasted

The power lies within your hands To do with what you may But the hourglass is filled with sands Of endless yesterdays